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<blockquote data-quote="Skarp Hedin" data-source="post: 208970" data-attributes="member: 1540">In my campaign world, dragons are very big lizards with a few different breath weapons (predominantly fire and acid).&nbsp; They're smarter than dogs, but not much.&nbsp; Intelligence 2 or so.&nbsp; They're fiercely territorial, well-known as vicious, ill-tempered, ravenous beasts.&nbsp; They're sort of like huge fire-breathing badgers.They're smaller than traditional D&amp;D dragons, but still quite large.Still hard to kill, but not near so hard.. though they're rare, and I wasn't planning on really using them as encounters, more as background data.Why do I bother telling you this here?&nbsp; Well, there're lots of ways to visualize dragons, from the &quot;unbeatable titans of doom&quot; that predominates (or seems to predominate) ENWorld thinking, to the &quot;really tough, but dragonslayers are cool&quot; view that seems to hang out in the PH and MM, down to even the cutesy &quot;dragons are so precious!&quot; view that encrusts those godawful figurines you can find in Hallmark-esque stores.&nbsp; There's nothing wrong with preferring a view.. but I like seeing other views, too.As for Reign of Fire, I haven't seen any trailers (lots of mixed reviews of 'em here), but it doesn't seem all that amazing to me that a dragon could be shot down and killed.&nbsp; If, as you say, the dragons are nasties who predate the dinosaurs and have been dormant for so long, well, they probably haven't adapted to the New World too well.&nbsp; Unless they're magical, bullets will pierce their hide just fine, even if they have better natural body armor than a rhinoceros.So kill 'em all, I say.&nbsp; A few LAW rockets (do they even use those anymore?) and some, uh, hong rod penetrators will do draco draconis a world o' good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Skarp Hedin, post: 208970, member: 1540"] In my campaign world, dragons are very big lizards with a few different breath weapons (predominantly fire and acid). They're smarter than dogs, but not much. Intelligence 2 or so. They're fiercely territorial, well-known as vicious, ill-tempered, ravenous beasts. They're sort of like huge fire-breathing badgers. They're smaller than traditional D&D dragons, but still quite large. Still hard to kill, but not near so hard.. though they're rare, and I wasn't planning on really using them as encounters, more as background data. Why do I bother telling you this here? Well, there're lots of ways to visualize dragons, from the "unbeatable titans of doom" that predominates (or seems to predominate) ENWorld thinking, to the "really tough, but dragonslayers are cool" view that seems to hang out in the PH and MM, down to even the cutesy "dragons are so precious!" view that encrusts those godawful figurines you can find in Hallmark-esque stores. There's nothing wrong with preferring a view.. but I like seeing other views, too. As for Reign of Fire, I haven't seen any trailers (lots of mixed reviews of 'em here), but it doesn't seem all that amazing to me that a dragon could be shot down and killed. If, as you say, the dragons are nasties who predate the dinosaurs and have been dormant for so long, well, they probably haven't adapted to the New World too well. Unless they're magical, bullets will pierce their hide just fine, even if they have better natural body armor than a rhinoceros. So kill 'em all, I say. A few LAW rockets (do they even use those anymore?) and some, uh, hong rod penetrators will do draco draconis a world o' good. [/QUOTE]

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